Let's make no bones about it, in Simon Cox we may be about to throw the last dice in our dance with the devil. Too many lower case messiahs have come and gone from the B.H.A. without achieving anything more positive than making themselves more wealth...

The Gran Premio del Jockey Club at San Siro is to be the next appearance of Constitution Hill. The Group 2 is on October 25th. I do think they have made a bit of a bollocks of this project. The September Stakes was a mistake, I now believe. In achiev...

At Market Rasen on Saturday, Willie Twiston-Davies vented his spleen on the topic of summer jumping. His view did not exactly mirror my opposition to the current summer jumping programme yet I understood his disquiet. Of course, being a critic of sum...

Of course, Billy Loughnane will not accept he is a certainty to be the new champion jockey. He is too sensible than to assume the crown is his. He might suffer a fall today or tomorrow which puts him on the sidelines until after Champions Day and Ois...

Occasionally, trainers come along whose training methods change the perception of how other trainers train their horses. These people are usually National Hunt trainers, Michael Dickenson and Martin Pipe come to mind. Yet no flat trainer seems minded...

No doubt I.T.V. will give prominence to the Cheveley Park and Middle Park Stakes today over the Cambridgeshire, even though the 3-day fixture is titled the Cambridgeshire meeting. To me, even though the former has still got the three most exciting 2-...